Unona. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 669 
joints linear-oblong or sub-cylindric, smooth, Seeds one 
in each joint and of the same form, smooth. _Integument 
polished, of the consistence of parchment. Embryo in 
the base of the perisperm, two-valved, from its inside innu- 
_ merable fibres projéct exactly as in Uvaria. See Gert. 
sem. 2. 155. ¢. 114. 
2. U. discolor. Vahl. s. 2. p. 63. t. 36. Willd. 2. 127. 
Arboreous. Leaves bifarious, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
smooth. Peduncles one-flowered. Berries from two to 
four, jointed ; joints globular. 
_ Uvaria monilifera. Gert. sem. 2. 156. t. 114. 
». Teling. Chilika doodooga. — 
_A pretty large tree, a native of the mountainous cart of 
the Northern Circars and the country near Chittagong. 
Trunk straight, with a thin, conical, tapering head ; bark 
scabrous. Branchlets bifarious, spreading. Leaves alter- 
nate, short-petioled, bifarious, from oblong to lanceolate, 
waved, smooth, pointed, from three to six inches long and 
abont two broad. \ Peduncles leaf-opposed, or between the 
leaves, rather more than an inch long bracted below the 
middle, each supporting a single large, yellowish, serice- 
ous, drooping flower. Calyx, three-leaved ; leaflets oblong, 
conical, acute, much shorter than the eorol, caducous. 
Petals six, lanceolate, sericeous, the three inner ones con- 
siderably smaller than the others. Stamina num iy 
wedge-shaped, ‘crowned with a large truncate brownish 
gland. Anthers a line on each side from the gland to the 
base. Germs about twenty, linear, densely clothed with 
ferruginous down. Style scarcely any. Stigma recurved, 
glandular, naked. Berries several, short-pedicelled, com- 
posed of from two to four roundish-oval, pretty smooth | 
joints, attached to a firm globular receptacle. Seed soli- 
tary, round-oval. Integument single, brown, thin, hard, — 
and ae pictoaaie conform to the eee sg died 
